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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 19:34, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Belated, but...

... I just now noticed and fulfilled your request at User talk:Leon petrosyan#Pictures of the Dome of the Chain.2C_Jerusalem. Typically, users can't move their own uploaded pictures from one file name to another. That requires the filemover privilege, which I have as an admin. In the future, if you want a file renamed, tag the file page with {{Rename}} (with appropriate parameters). See Commons:File renaming#How to rename a file? for details. - Jmabel ! talk 05:01, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you, Jmabel! Arminden — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arminden (talk • contribs) 10:13, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

"Fake site"

Adding this to image captions is likely vandalism. Please revert yourself. Thanks, RodRabelo7 (talk) 14:12, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi RodRabelo7.

A. I am pretty sure it isn't.

B. I have VERY good reasons to write it. There were half a dozen Wikipedia pages who were tricked into using this picture of a fake site as illustration to the Second Book of Kings, the Ein es-Sultan spring, biblical prophet Elisha, Tell es-Sultan archaeological site & UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Ein es-Sultan refugee camp -and I think I might be missing some. It took me a lot of time to fix them all, and many more editors would fall into the same trap and use it again if the caption doesn't state the actual facts. So please understand it's not just correct, but most necessary and useful.

The local owner of the shop & restaurant there uses it as a magnet for tourists ("tourist trap"). Good for him, but not for an encyclopedia. The real spring is a short distance away and has been enclosed in a building for protection by some European Community development agency, to get inside you need to pay a fee. The nearby shop & restaurant owner had a smart idea and created the free-access fountain on the side of his parking lot, taking water from the public water system. Most of Jericho gets its water from that spring, so every tap in Jericho has as good a claim to be "Elisha's Spring" as that parking lot contraption. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 14:43, 11 March 2024 (UTC)